Imran Arshad Choudhry*, Adnan N. Qureshi
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 1445-1463, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025208
Abstract The well-established mortality rates due to lung cancers, scarcity of radiology experts and inter-observer variability underpin the dire need for robust and accurate computer aided diagnostics to provide a second opinion. To this end, we propose a feature grafting approach to classify lung cancer images from publicly available National Institute of Health (NIH) chest X-Ray dataset comprised of 30,805 unique patients. The performance of transfer learning with pre-trained VGG and Inception models is evaluated in comparison against manually extracted radiomics features added to convolutional neural network using custom layer. For classification with both approaches, Support Vectors Machines (SVM) are used.… More >